Undone by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews [Crews, Caitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-12T12:26:57+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHARLIE HAD SEEN all kinds of bad shit in his time. Things he could never scrub from his head no matter how he tried. Nasty old nightmares that came out in the dark sometimes and kept him awake. Of all the things that he liked about leaving his life in Texas behind him for good, cutting down on scenarios that left that kind of dank residue inside of him ranked pretty high.

But he couldn’t remember any of those tonight. Because the look on Maya’s face as she stared back at him, his identity no longer a secret, was the thing that was going to haunt him forever.

He had liked Sebastian well enough before this, but as the man kept braying on, Charlie thought he might actually have to kill him.

St. George this, St. George that—Charlie barely heard him because Maya had gone too still. He watched her gaze darken, stormy and shocked and something much worse. Much too close to betrayed. He watched, frozen himself though he would have denied it, as she swallowed. Visibly.

And when she stood from her bar stool, gathering that soft cloud of pink around her, he could see that her hands were shaking.

The last time his heart had beat this hard he’d had a gun in his face.

“If you’ll excuse me,” she said in a perfectly smooth voice. But it wasn’t her voice. Not the one he recognized. “I have to get back.”

She aimed the same smile at him that she threw Sebastian’s way. Blank. Absent.

As if she was already back across the ocean, tucked up in freezing cold Canada. As if nothing had ever happened between them, which was what he should have wanted.

Instead, Charlie felt like he was running for his life when he knew perfectly well he was standing still. Maya was so elegant, so composed, and he hated it. She pivoted around on one of those heels that did things to her legs he wanted to get down on his knees to taste and started for the door.

“Hold that thought,” Charlie growled at Sebastian, finally shutting up the other man midway through a long lecture on the life and times of Daniel St. George, who had somehow found himself in a bar in Houston, Texas, long enough to make Charlie all those years ago. Back when Charlie’s mother had been young and hot instead of beaten down and bitter.

Charlie set off after Maya, not really caring if the entire village and half the Amalfi coast saw him chasing after a woman for the first time ever. All he cared about was that he caught up to her—and he didn’t want to ask himself why that was.

He already knew he wouldn’t like the answer.

He caught up to her out in the hushed hotel lobby, with its piped-in music and designer fragrances. He skirted the over-the-top Christmas trees, the kind of thing that usually put his teeth on edge given how little holiday cheer he’d experienced in his time, but he couldn’t bring himself to care about that now.

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